LGBTQ+ people

• those who identify as being a minority sexual orientation, i.e. those who are not straight/heterosexual

• those who are not cisgender, i.e. those whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex

These are rainbowRs!

Since the last meet-up

• launched a new website: https://rainbowr.netlify.app

• written a new Code of Conduct

• reopened the Slack group with sign-up form

• launched the TidyRainbow project

• revitalised the Twitter feed

• gglgbtq package

Things that have gone well

• 47 new members in the Slack group (107 in total)

• lots of new Twitter followers

• lots of engagement with the TidyRainbow launch announcement tweet

Where things could be going better

• very little activity on Slack, except for a few introductions in #welcome

• have only posted/publicised one TidyRainbow dataset

• would be good to have more people involved

What next?

• regular zoom hangouts (monthly? quarterly?)

• send out another TidyRainbow dataset, and continue to do so regularly (monthly?)

• organise some kind of event on Slack to get people logging in and engaging in community there

• Make a rainbowR blog post template, then encourage others to contribute to blog

• ideas from the community

  • add to etherpad

Breakout rooms

• Some topics to discuss/note:

  • what would you like RainbowR to be, in order to best serve its community?

  • what kind of activities would you like RainbowR to run?

  • ideas for blog-posts

  • ideas for data sets for data-driven activism

  • would you like to contribute and, if so, how?

  • Anything else you’d like to add

Back together

• Share ideas from the breakout room

• Any questions?